CO129-557-5 Estimates 1937 19-8-1936 - 7-8-1937 — Page 43

No. 236.

AIRMAIL

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Sir,

EIVED

1937

EGY

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GOVERNMENT HOUSE,

HONG KONG,

22nd March, 1937.

I have the honour to request your

approval in accordance with Colonial Regulation

265 to the expenditure of $19,000 under Head

26, Kowloon-Canton Railway, Sub-head 37, Special

Expenditure, of the Estimates for 1937.

2.

The sum of $25,000 was provided under

this sub-head in the approved Estimates for the

reconditioning and conversion from saturated to

superheated steam of one Class B. locomotive

boiler. When a second boiler of this class was

stripped for inspection early this year, serious

faults were discovered, and, in view of the fact

that the total number of such boilers is only

four, it was essential that repairs be carried

out at once.

3.

In the circumstances it is considered

advisable to forego the reconditioning and conversion

to superheat of the one boiler provided for in

the Estimates and to order from home two new

copper fireboxes at a cost of approximately

$14,500, and the reconditioning, fitting and

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE

W.G.A.ORMSBY-GORE, P.C., M.P.,

&C.,

&C., &C.